Charles Irby

Charles Irby has over thirty years of experience in systems and software.  Most recently responsible for consumer products and technology at Silicon Graphics, Mr. Irby was previously in charge of development at General Magic, where he produced the products Magic Cap and Telescript. Before that, he was a co-founder of Metaphor Computer Systems, director of the Advanced Development Group at Xerox PARC's Office System Division (where he led design of the Xerox Star user interface).  He worked with Doug Engelbart as chief architect of NLS at SRI's Augmentation Research Center in the early 1970's.  Mr. Irby holds a master's degree in computer science and electronic engineering from UCSD, where he also completed coursework toward a doctorate.